Don Van Massenhoven (born July 17, 1960) is a National Hockey League referee since the 1993–94 NHL season, who wears uniform number 21.
Before he became an NHL referee, VanMassenhoven was a police officer. During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, he was a car salesman in his hometown of Strathroy, Ontario.
VanMassenhoven was one of two referees (Dan O'Halloran was the other) during a November 21, 2005 game between the Nashville Predators and the Detroit Red Wings at the Joe Louis Arena where Jiri Fischer suddenly suffered a seizure. VanMassenhoven applied CPR and used an AED. The game was later postponed because of what happened and was made up on January 23, 2006.
Famous quotes containing the words don and/or van:
“Don here-and-there, Don epileptic;
Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;
Don middle-class, Don sycophantic,
Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic;”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)